The Tanzanian national indicted in the 1998 terrorist bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania will not face the possibility of the death penalty, according to a letter issued by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder on Monday
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Police: DNA confirms Noordin dead
Indonesian police say they have DNA evidence identifying the man they killed this week as Noordin Top, the nation’s most-wanted terror suspect. “We have matched this Malaysian man’s DNA against his family and it’s 100 percent match,” Nanan Soekarna, a national police representative said Saturday
The Screening Room’s Top 10 Movie Deaths
Movie deaths can be tragic, heroic, spine-chilling — even funny. This month, we’ve brought together our favorite screen exits, from Psycho to Bambi.
DARPA invests in math
The group came into being in December 1987, growing out of the Muslim Brotherhood, the religious and political organization founded in Egypt.
Suicide bombers use U.N. disguise in Somali attack
Suicide attackers breached security at the African Union base in Somalia’s capital by using vehicles with United Nations logos to carry out a deadly double car bombing, the organization told CNN. But what does this term mean “The ‘person of interest’ tells you nothing,” says Cynthia Hujar Orr, president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
Four U.S. troops killed in Iraq roadside blasts
A spate of roadside bombings in Iraq killed four U.S. troops and a civilian Tuesday, authorities said
UK PM refused to press Libya over IRA
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown refused to press Libya to pay compensation to the victims of IRA bombings, rejecting the pleas of a top human rights lawyer, previously secret letters released Sunday by Brown’s office show. “Libya has made it clear to us that they consider this matter closed,” Brown wrote in October 2008 to Jason McCue, who represents victims of bombings by the Irish Republican Army.
Dozen bombings in Iraq kill at least 6, wound 85
Bombings rocked Iraq on Thursday, killing at least six people and wounding at least another 85, an Iraqi official told CNN.
Iraq says ex-Baathist confesses to Finance Ministry attack
Iraqi officials Sunday released what they called a confession from a man identified as a former Baathist police official, who says he helped organize one of last week’s attacks on government buildings in Baghdad. In the videotaped statement, the man identified himself as Wissam Ali Kadhim Ibrahim, a former police chief in executed dictator Saddam Hussein’s government. Ibrahim said he received orders for the bombing of the Finance Ministry building from a member of Hussein’s Baath Party now living in Syria